Import issue change history

flex.bi allows import and analyze issue change history including:

issue status workflow transitions – how many times issues are transitioned to particular workflow status (e.g. how many times issues are reopened) or how long issues stay in particular workflow status (e.g. what is average time of issues staying in open status);
how many issues were in a workflow status, or were assigned to assignees, or were in a particular sprint at some historical point in time;
how custom field measures or single-value custom dimensions were changed over time

Please, select Import issue change history in Jira data import settings.

With this option selected value change history for Sprint, Assignee, Issue type, Resolution dimensions are enabled as well. It also should be selected if value change history is enabled for any custom field dimension.

Historical measures

If this option is selected then the following additional measures will be available:

Transitions to status	How many times during selected Time dimension period issue has been transitioned to the status that is selected in Transition Status dimension (or only transitions that are selected in Transition dimension). Also, first issue status will be counted in this measure on issue creation date. If you would like to see a distinct (unique) count of issues for these transitions then use Transitions to status issues count measure from the Distinct issues count measure group.
Transitions from status	How many times during selected Time dimension period issue has been transitioned from the status that is selected in Transition Status dimension to different status (or only transitions that are selected in Transition dimension). If you would like to see a distinct (unique) count of issues for these transitions then use Transitions from status issues count measure from the Distinct issues count measure group.
Transitions to	Hidden measure. How many times during selected Time dimension period issue has changes to some value in any default field (Status, Assignee, Sprint, Issue type, Priority, Resolution) or any custom field with enabled value changes If you would like to see a distinct (unique) count of issues for these transitions then use Transitions to issues count measure (hidden measure). You could use Transition field dimension (it is a hidden dimension and could be used only in calculated measures) to limit transitions for a particular dimension only.
Transitions from	Hidden measure. How many times during selected Time dimension period issue has changes from some value in any default field (Status, Assignee, Sprint, Issue type, Priority, Resolution) or any custom field with enabled value changes If you would like to see a distinct (unique) count of issues for these transitions then use Transitions from issues count measure (hidden measure). You could use Transition field dimension (it is a hidden dimension and could be used only in calculated measures) to limit transitions for a particular dimension only.
Transition to first timestamp	Hidden measure. Shows the timestamp of the first transition to some value in any default field (Status, Assignee, Sprint, Issue type, Priority, Resolution) or any custom field with enabled value changes. You could use Transition field dimension (it is a hidden dimension and could be used only in calculated measures) to limit transitions for a particular dimension only.
Transition to last timestamp	Hidden measure. Shows the timestamp of the last transition to some value in any default field (Status, Assignee, Sprint, Issue type, Priority, Resolution) or any custom field with enabled value changes. You could use Transition field dimension (it is a hidden dimension and could be used only in calculated measures) to limit transitions for a particular dimension only.
Transition from first timestamp	Hidden measure. Shows the timestamp of the first transition from some value in any default field (Status, Assignee, Sprint, Issue type, Priority, Resolution) or any custom field with enabled value changes. You could use Transition field dimension (it is a hidden dimension and could be used only in calculated measures) to limit transitions for a particular dimension only.
Transition from last timestamp	Hidden measure. Shows the timestamp of the last transition from some value in any default field (Status, Assignee, Sprint, Issue type, Priority, Resolution) or any custom field with enabled value changes. You could use Transition field dimension (it is a hidden dimension and could be used only in calculated measures) to limit transitions for a particular dimension only.
Days in transition status	Use this measure for individual issues to show how many days issue has stayed in status from Transition status dimension. It is calculated when an issue is transitioned from this status (when the Transitions from status measure is recorded) and will be shown on Time dimension on the date when the transition from this status happened. Use Average days in transition status calculated measure when you are analyzing totals of many issues.
Workdays in transition status	Similar to Days in transition status but only workdays are calculated according to Time dimension options.
Transitions to status issues count	How many (unique) issues have transitioned to selected status in Transition Status dimension (or only transitions that are selected in Transition dimension) during the period chosen in Time dimension. The measure is located in Distinct issues count measure group.
Transitions from status issues count	How many (unique) issues have transitioned from selected status in Transition Status dimension (or only transitions that are selected in Transition dimension) during the period chosen in Time dimension. The measure is located in Distinct issues count measure group.

Calculated measures

In addition, the following calculated historical measures are available:

Issues history	How many issues at the end of selected Time dimension period are in status that is selected in Transition Status dimension (calculated as Transitions to status minus Transitions from status from beginning of time until the end of the selected Time period); or with Assignee or within Sprint at the end of the selected Time period; or with custom field dimension member (for which Import changes are selected) at the end of the selected Time period.
Average days in transition status	Average days that issue stayed in status that is selected in Transition status dimension. It is calculated when an issue is transitioned from this status (when the the Transitions from status measure is recorded) and will be shown on Time dimension on the date when the transition from this status happened.
Average workdays in transition status	Similar to Average days in transition status but only workdays are calculated according to Time dimension options.
Transition to status first date	Shows the date and time when the first transition to the corresponding Transition Status (or the selected Transition) was performed.
Transition to status last date	Shows the date and time when the last transition to the corresponding Transition Status (or the selected Transition) was performed.
Transition from status first date	Shows the date and time when the first transition from the corresponding Transition Status (or the selected Transition) was performed.
Transition from status last date	Shows the date and time when the last transition from the corresponding Transition Status (or the selected Transition) was performed.
Transition to assignee	How many times during selected Time dimension period issue has been assigned to the user selected in Assignee dimension.
Transition from assignee	How many times during selected Time dimension period issue has been unassigned from the assignee selected in Assignee dimension.

Custom field measures

Please, select the option import value changes for any custom field in a custom field list to enable value change import for numeric custom field to get additional historical measures:

<custom field> change	Custom field value change(increased or decreased value compared to the previous period) in selected Time dimension period. Calculated as sum of measures <custom field> added and <custom field> removed.
<custom field> history	Calculated member. Custom field value in selected Time dimension period.
<custom field> added	Hidden measure that could be used in the calculated measures. How much value is added during selected Time dimension period.
<custom field> removed	Hidden measure that could be used in the calculated measures. How much value is removed during selected Time dimension period.

Dimensions

In addition, the following dimensions will be used:

Transition Status	All statuses that appear in workflow transitions (the same statuses as in Status dimension). For next-gen projects, transition status value is a combination of status and project key, like "In Progress (DEMO)". flex.bi also creates a secondary hierarchy By Name that groups transition statuses first by status name and then by project-specific status thus allowing to analyze all issues with the same transition status name across all next-gen and standard projects.
Transition	All individual transitions with names in the format “From status => To status”. For next-gen projects, statuses describing transition have value combined of status and project key, like "To Do (DEMO) => In Progress (DEMO)". flex.bi also creates a secondary hierarchy By Name that groups transitions first by transition name and then by project-specific transitions thus allowing to analyze all issues with the same transition name across all next-gen and standard projects.
Transition Author	User who performed the transition.
Transition Author Group	Corresponding Jira user groups of transition authors. If a user belongs to several Jira user groups then corresponding measure value will be included for all corresponding user groups in this dimension.
Assignee	Issue assignee at the moment when the transition was performed.
Sprint	If you import Sprint dimension from Jira Software custom fields then also Sprint changes will be stored and will show the sprint when the transition was performed.
Transition field	Hidden dimension that could be used in the calculated measures to limit changes to particular dimension only. For example. [Transiton field].[Sprint] will limit changes to Sprints only.

Please remember that Status dimension always shows current issue status and you should use Transition Status dimension with these measures. For example, if you would like to analyze how many times currently closed issues were reopened then select Closed status in Status dimension and Reopened status in Transition Status and use Transitions to status measure.

Custom field dimensions

flex.bi supports value changes import for single value custom field dimensions. Please add additional separate_table and changes in advanced settings for these custom fields:

[jira.customfield_NNNNN]
data_type = "string"
dimension = true
separate_table = true
changes = true

Use custom field ID instead of NNNNN in the definition above. Add the updated custom field definition to flex.bi advanced settings or ask Jira administrator or flex.bi admin to do this for you. flex.bi advanced settings are common for all accounts and only Jira administrators and flex.bi admins have access to the settings.

Open source data Jira import options for edit after changes in advanced settings and select the custom field for import as a dimension, with value changes and run an import. After import historical measures will show historical values over time for this dimension.